Our goal is to achieve self-reliant seed production in Kashmir: Director Agriculture

During the visit, Chowdhary inspected various sections of the farm spread over an area of almost 1,100 Kanals and reviewed the various interventions adopted there.

Speaking on the occasion, the Director said that the departmental farms are the assets of the department and have an inevitable role to play amid the changing  global agriculture scenario.

“Our immediate goal is to achieve the self-reliance in seed requirement of different Agricultural crops in the region and the departmental Seed Multiplication Farms are the main resources to reach this ambitious goal,” he said.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Seeds Corporation is likely to be executed so that all the potential and scope of these departmental farms and other related infrastructure could be channelized in a proper manner.

The concerned officers/ technical experts work on a mission mode so that all the set targets for the current year could be reached successfully.

Earlier, the Director of Agriculture visited Hi-tech Poly houses at Hall Nikas Shopian and took stock of preparation for the distribution of seedlings of different vegetable crops among the farmers of concerned areas.

The Director (Controller Insecticides) also inspected various Insecticide/ Pesticide  dealers of district Shopian.